Sally_J._Smith_(artist)
Sally J. Smith (artist)
American artist
Sally J. Smith is an American artist who creates fairy house sculptures and land art.[1][2] She is based in Westport, New York near Lake Champlain[3][1] in the Adirondack Mountains.[4] She grew up in Shelburne, Vermont and previously worked as a watercolorist[3] and illustrator.
Smith runs the artist studio Greenspirit Arts.[1] She makes sculpted fairy houses out of natural and human-made material,[3] with most of the houses standing 12 to 18 inches tall.[5] She creates both temporary fairy houses in nature and others for indoor display.[1] In 2017, her book Fairy Houses, How to Create Whimsical Homes for Fairy Folk was published by Cool Springs Press.[6]
Her work is held in the permanent collection of the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History.[3]